Viviana Asara

Short BioViviana Asara is a PhD candidate at ICTA-UAB and is currently undertaking research on degrowth and democracy, with a case-study on the indignados movement. She holds a master in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, a master’s degree in Political Science from the Universitΰ di Bologna and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication (with a focus on sociology and semiotics). For her MPhil dissertation she has been working for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, doing research on birds diversity, while she studied the effect of Foreign Direct Investment on development in Brazil for her Italian master. She is currently working with J. Martinez-Alier, G. Kallis and F. Schneider for the European project RESPONDER (http://www.scp-responder.eu/), focused on the contradictions between economic growth and sustainable consumption. Before starting her PhD she gained some work experience at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Tunisia and at the Italian Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, and got two scholarships for studying at the Universitι Libre de Bruxelles and the University of California, San Diego.